Our newsletter is published every two weeks.Search and see photos of adoptable pets in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area Our Featured Minneapolis, MN Partner: Great Dane Rescue of Minnesota Please visit our website for our on line application form.Danes up to six years of age are $300.00, over 6 or special needs $150.00 References are needed, we do background checks and home visits before you are approved to adopt. We want to make the best match possible between you and your new Dane.We have an acreage in Southwest Minnesota where we have been raising Great Danes for over 25 years.  We consider Danes the most beautiful and noble of all breeds.  We are active in showing them.  We have had sweepstakes winners, winners at specialtWoof Woof we need a roof! Donate Now to help the Danes. The Great Dane Rescue of Minnesota & Wisconsin is an all-volunteer rescue devoted to rehoming Great Danes in MN & WI, with an on-site sanctuary for unadoptable Danes to live in dignity

OUR MISSION is the care and re-homing of purebred Great Danes. Danes coming into the rescue may stay with us for many months before just the right home is found and some have medical conditions requiring expensive veterinary care. We also have a sanctuary program for those Danes that are not adoptable due to age, health or temperament from all over the U.S. SERVING THE GREAT DANES OF MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN,UPPER MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, IOWA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND NORTH DAKOTA BY PROVIDING LOVING, EXPERIENCED FOSTER CARE, VETERINARY CARE AND WHEN NEEDED, SANCTUARY CARE FOR THE UNADOPTABLE. WE ARE ABLE TO PLACE DOGS IN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN HOMES, AND IN NEIGHBORING STATES WITHIN 10 MILES OF THESE BORDERS. GDROMN IS A 501 C3 NOT FOR PROFIT ALL VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION I have been a foster mom for a little over a year and we have fostered 3 dogs already. We have a dog, I was a first time foster failure which makes 2 of our own. We fostered Kona until he found a GREAT forever home and we currently have sweet Rocket as a foster.

When we started this fostering adventure I was very apprehensive about doing this as it is a big responsibility, we have a smaller house and yard and I like many was worried about the attachment we would have and the sadness when they find their forever home, but we did it anyway. So glad we decided to help when we see the amazing changes that happen during the dogs stay and knowing how the schedule, structure and care we provide help them in ways most people probably wont ever understand. The farm is a great place to start but they need a real home to let their full potential show through. This has kept us volunteering to be a foster family. All these babies want is a loving forever home and fostering helps get them ready for this. We get attached, we love them but we know that we are doing what we can to help prepare them be the best they can in their forever home. If you are considering fostering please give it a try, it means so much to them.We have our Beautiful girl Jada and Chaps drop their litter 07/05/16.

They are some of theMINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — What was supposed to be a happy moment turned tragic for a champion Minnesota show dog. How Fix Bathtub StopperAfter giving birth to a litter of puppies, the Great Dane left the vet badly burned.Big 10 Tires Lawrenceville Ga It still hurts Cathy Bracht to see what happened to her dog, Alleiyah, whose scars will likely keep her from ever competing again.Saskia Curtains What exactly went wrong isn’t yet clear, what is clear is a call to better protect other pets. Alleiyah is busy nursing her third litter of puppies, but this time she is doing it through much more pain. A 165-pound Harlequin Great Dane, Alleiyah is a celebrated champion across the Midwest dog show circuit. She delivered her latest puppies at the end of September — where her others were born — at Blue Sky Animal Hospital in Wyoming, Minnesota.

She was home after just a few hours. Bracht, who is a former vet tech herself, first noticed some discoloration on her dog. “That first evening I noticed she was just up and about all night long. That just wasn’t like her,” Bracht said. The next day, Bracht noticed a small blister on her back. “I thought, ‘oh my God, is this a burn? A return trip to her vet confirmed Bracht’s fears: second- and third-degree burns all over Alleiyah’s right side. “She’s a beautiful dog. She doesn’t deserve this,” Bracht said, wiping away tears. “I know they’re heartbroken as we are,” Dr. Jeff Johnson said. This is where the story of what exactly happened that morning isn’t clear. Alleiyah was placed on a heating element to maintain her body temperature during her C-section, a common practice at vet clinics. She then went down the hall after coming off anesthesia, into a recovery room where Cathy brought her own heated dog bed from home.

It’s something Johnson says he didn’t know because it was covered by a heavy blanket. Bracht, however, is convinced Johnson’s surgery equipment is to blame for the burns. “I do know 100 percent it happened during surgery,” she said. Bracht said Johnson’s story about what exactly he used on her kept changing. He told WCCO he has since bought new heating equipment just to be safe, but he believes the heated pad Bracht brought from home was the problem. “There are three people in the room checking those things. So that it can’t, even if it were to malfunction in a way that it doesn’t tend to do, it would not be undetected,” Johnson said. Caroline Baldo is an anesthesiologist at the University of Minnesota Veternary Medical Center. She demonstrated the equipment the university uses for the dozens of surgeries performed here every day. “The pad is placed on the table and the patient is placed on the pad,” Baldo said as she pointed to something called the Hot Dog Warming Device.

Then, a separate device — a warming blanket called the Bair Hugger — goes on the top. Sensors from the Hot Dog Warming Device keeps track of the Bair Hugger blanket’s temperatures, monitoring it so it doesn’t get too hot. “If these overheat regardless of the mechanism by which they’re providing heat to your patient they will actually send an alarm off and some of them will shut off,” Baldo said. The American Veterinary Medical Association told WCCO there are multiple warming devices vets can use and the risk is low for thermal burns if the equipment is used correctly. There are no standards on what kind of heating elements should be used on pets in vet clinics just suggestions. “Oh, I absolutely think it should be regulated,” Baldo said. Alleiyah goes back to Johnson every few days to treat her burns.You don’t want to see them in any discomfort,” he said. Johnson says he takes full responsibility for whatever happened since Alleiyah was in his care when it did.